Tea production at record high

India’s beleaguered tea industry is showing signs of resurgence with record production and a jump in exports, besides prices firming up in the weekly auctions. “The production last year was a record high of 955 million kg, up by 27 million kg compared to 2005, while exports have gone up by about eight million kg to 200 million kg in the same period,” said Dhiraj Kakaty, secretary of the Assam chapter of the Indian Tea Association (ITA), the country’s apex tea administration body.courtesy:economictimes

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